this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2025
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When you register on Reddit, you consent to being tracked. Possibly across the web via cookies. This is not the case with Lemmy.
Otherwise it’s illegal. At least in the EU. You must get a users consent if you want to track them.
Of course someone could collect data on your up/down votes and what you write, but it’s technically illegal to use the data.
Tracking mostly happens with cookies, which is not present in Lemmy.
“There’s no way to say I don’t want to share this”… Yes there is. Don’t hit the upvote button, if you don’t want anyone to know.
Votes are public. They are just not exposed to everyone by default. Only admins on Lemmy. But go to Mbin and votes are public.
Mods can see them too
Strangely not through the default lemmy UI, but tesseract supports it
On all comms or just the comm they moderate?
The ones they mod
Well yes, that's what I meant with the part before that.
This isn't unique to Lemmy, every social media including Reddit allows you to prevent sharing something by never posting it in the first place.
I'm saying beyond that there's nothing more you can do. So Lemmy literally doesn't do anything more there than Reddit did.
For context, this was in response to this part of your comment (emphasis mine):
Which sounds like you're saying Lemmy is somehow different and better than Reddit at this, which it really isn't.